Fresh global calls to ban 'killer robot' weapons

Several nations have made a renewed call for banning "killer robot" weapons with the capability of targeting and killing people without human intervention.

According to Sky News, nations will vote on whether to consider the ban at the annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva on Friday.

France has called for an international agreement to stop the government from developing fully autonomous drones.

The move is backed by the "Campaign to Stop Killer Robots" which is an international coalition of 44 non-governmental organisations in 21 countries that was launched in London in April 2013.

According to the report, the drones operated by the U.S., UK, Israel and South Korea, already have some degree of autonomy and lethality, while other militarily developed countries, such as China and Russia, are believed to be moving towards systems that would leave combat decisions to such killer machines.

A co-founder of the Campaign from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Steve Goose, said that the governments need to start working urgently on both national prohibitions and an international ban on these fully autonomous weapons.